Thursday Night Football was far from the pinnacle of the sport. The Chicago Bears and Washington Commanders tried their darnest to put on a spectacle that more closely resembled a debacle fans mercifully wanted to end.

The Commanders came out on top with a finals score of 12-7, but even the win feels like a loss in spirit after that one. Ron Rivera even ended up lashing out at reporters at the end of it which goes to show how even after a win, quarterback Carson Wentz didn't exactly come out smelling like roses.

The numbers paint that same story of chaos and confusion as well. Here are eight stats from Bears-Commanders that attempt to explain what we all watched on that fine Thursday evening:

What's more telling of a dysfunctional contest than stats favoring one team, but the other one winning? Well, that's how it ended up as the Bears outgained the Commanders by a mile and somehow managed to fumble the final result.

Not only that, but teams who tallied those exact numbers against each other had a rather straightforward result in the first 214 times it's happened since the Super Bowl era began. This one went against the grain. The parameters may feel a bit cherrypicked, but the 0-214 record prior to Thursday night speaks for itself.

The Bears-Commanders contest also seemingly took the baton from the Broncos-Colts barnburner that saw zero touchdowns for a game that went into overtime. Both teams had one field goal and nothing else between them through halftime with that spell of futility finally seeing its end with an end zone score in the middle of the third quarter.

It wasn't from a lack of opportunities though, as the Bears were right at the cusp of a hearty touchdown celebration several times but couldn't capitalize against D.C.'s defense that indeed deserves credit, but also caught a few breaks themselves.

There were also several instances when the Commanders had sent out the wrong number of players on the field. They tried a few with an extra man on and even did one with a man down during the final drive. That level of confusion was just bold enough to work, as they outlasted the Bears during the final minutes of the game.

Perhaps the most eye-popping number is the fact that Amazon coughed up a whopping $78 million for the rights to broadcast that game. They clearly took the biggest L from a Bears-Commanders game that seemed to have several losers.

In the grand scheme of things, they probably still made the right bang for their buck from the ad revenue, but just the thought of $78 million being spent for that feels like buying a wonky NFT that your friends don't understand how it could be worth as much as you paid for it.

Next Week features Cardinals-Saints, which isn't the sexiest matchup either but it probably can't get even worse than what we've all seen the past two weeks, right? Right? Well, I guess we shouldn't tempt fate.